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, (S, * TA,) aor. يَجُوبُ, (S, TA,) inf. n. جَوْبٌ (S, A, K, TA) and تَجْوَابٌ, (Har p. 336,) He made a hole in it; or rent, or tore, it; (S, A, K, TA;) as also ↓ اجتابهُ: (K, * TA:) he made a hole through, or in, or into, it; perforated, pierced, or bored, it: (TA:) he cut it: (S, A, K, TA:) he cut it in like manner as one cuts a جَيْب [or an opening at the neck and bosom of a shirt &c.]: (L, TA:) he made, or cut, a hole in the middle of it; cut a piece out of the middle of it; hollowed it out; or excavated it. (TA.) You say, جاب الصَّخْرَةَ He made a hole in the rock; (A, TA;) perforated, pierced, or bored, it. (TA.) Hence, in the Kur [lxxxix. 8], وَثَمُودَ الَّذِينَ جَابُوا الصَّخْرَ بِالوَادِ (Fr, S, TA) And Thamood, who made holes in the rocks, (Fr, TA,) or cut the rocks, (Bd, Jel,) [or hollowed them out,] and made them dwellings, in the valley, (Fr, Bd, Jel, TA,) i. e., in Wádi-l-Kurà. (Bd, Jel.) You say also, جاب القَمِيصَ, (S, A, K,) aor. بَجُوبُ, [inf. n. جَوْبٌ;] (S, K, and Msb in art. جيب;) and aor. يَجِيبُ, (S, K,) [inf. n., app., جِيبٌ, originally جَوْبٌ; see a verse cited below, and a remark of Sh thereon;] and ↓ جوّبهُ; (A, K;) He hollowed out, or cut out in a round form, the جَيْب of the shirt: (S, and Msb in art. جيب:) or he cut the جَيْب of the shirt: (A:) or he made a جَيْب to the shirt; (K;) as also جَيَّبَهُ, (S, and Msb in art. جيب,) inf. n. تَجْيِيبٌ. (S.) And جاب الثَّوْبَ He cut the garment, or piece of cloth; [or cut it out;] as also ↓ اجتابهُ. (A.) And جاب النَّعْلَ, inf. n. جَوْبٌ, He cut out the sandal. (TA.) And جاب القَرْنُ [i. e. جاب اللَّحْمَ] The horn cut the flesh and came forth. (TA.) ― -b2- [Hence, also,] جاب, (S, A, Msb, TA,) aor. يَجُوبُ (S, Msb, TA) and يَجِيبُ, (S, TA,) inf. n. جَوْبٌ; (TA;) and ↓ اجتاب; (S, A, TA;) (tropical:) He traversed, or crossed, (S, A, * Msb, TA,) or cut through by journeying, (TA,) a country, (S, TA,) or a land, (Msb,) and a desert, and the darkness: (A, * TA:) and جَوْبٌ signifies likewise the pouncing down of a bird. (TA.) A rájiz says, " بَاتَتْ تَجِيبُ أَدْعَجَ الظَّلَامِ جِيبَ البِيَطْرِ مِدْرَعَ الهُمَامِ " (assumed tropical:) [She passed the night cutting through the black darkness, like as the tailor cuts through the woollen tunic of the valiant chief, making the opening at the neck and bosom]: (S: [but in one copy, instead of جِيبَ, I here find جَيْبَ; and in art. بطر, شَقَّ:]) and Sh remarks that this [verb تجيب, or the inf. n. جيب,] is not from الجَيْبُ [meaning “ the opening at the neck and bosom ” of a shirt &c.], because its medial radical is و, and that of الجيب is ى: (TA:) [i. e., جاب, aor. يجيب, is originally جَوَبَ, aor. يَجْوِبُ.] One says also, of news, يَجُوبُ الأَرْضَ مِنْ بَلَدٍ إِلَى بَلَدٍ (assumed tropical:) [It traverses the earth from country to country, or the land from town to town]. (S, TA.) And of proverbs, تَجُوبُ البِلَادَ (assumed tropical:) They are current in the countries, or towns. (TA.) ― -b3- It is said in a trad., جِيبَتِ العَرَبُ عَنَّا كَمَا جِيبَتِ الرَّحَا عَنْ قُطْبِهَا (assumed tropical:) The Arabs were rent from us, like as the mill-stone is rent from its pivot; we being in the midst, and they around us. (TA.) -A2- جَابَتِ الدَّعْوَةُ: see أَجْوَبُ.

: see 1. ― -b2- Also, said of the light of the moon, (assumed tropical:) It illumined, and rendered clear, [by penetrating,] a dark night. (TA.) -A2- جوّب عَلَيْهِ [from جَوْبٌ “ a shield ”] He shielded him. (TA: so accord. to an explanation of the act. part. n.)

[جاوبهُ, inf. n. مُجَاوَبَةٌ, He returned him answer for answer, or answers for answers; held a dialogue, colloquy, conference, disputation, or debate, with him; bandied words with him.] See 6, in two places.

, (S, A, Msb, TA,) inf. n. إِجَابَةٌ (S, Msb, K, * TA) and إِجَابٌ (K, * TA) and ↓ جَابَةٌ, (Kr, TA,) or this last is a simple subst., (AHeyth, S, TA,) like طَاعَةٌ and طَاقَةٌ, (S, A,) used in the place of an inf. n.; (AHeyth, TA;) and ↓ استجابهُ (A, K, TA) and ↓ اِسْتَجُوَبَهُ and لَهُ ↓ اِستجاب; (K, TA;) [for] إِجَابَةٌ and ↓ اِسْتِجَابَةٌ are syn.; (S, TA;) He answered him, replied to him, responded to him, (Msb, TA,) either affirmatively or negatively. (Msb.) And اجاب قَوْلَهُ He answered, or replied to, his saying. (Msb.) And اجاب عَنْ سُوأَالِهِ (S, TA) He answered, or replied to, his question. (TA.) And اجاب دُعَآءَهُ, (Msb, TA, *) and دُعَآءَهُ ↓ استجاب, (S, A, TA,) and لَهُ ↓ استجاب, (Msb,) and مِنْهُ ↓ استجاب, (Har p. 307,) said of God, (S, A, Msb, TA,) [He answered his prayer;;] He accepted his prayer; (Msb;) He recompensed his prayer by gift and acceptance. (TA.) It is said in the Kur [ii. 182], أُجِيبُ دَعْوةَ الدَّاعِى إِذَا لِى ↓ دَعَانِ فَلْيَسْتَجِيبُوا [I answer the prayer of him who prayeth to me;] therefore let them answer me; (TA;) i. e., let them answer my call by obedience, (Jel,) when I call them to belief and obedience: (Bd:) accord. to Fr, what is here meant [by the last verb] is تَلْبِيَة [q. v. in art. لبى]: (TA:) [or let them give me their assent, or consent, to my call; or let them obey my call: for you say, اجابهُ إِلَى شَىْءٍ and عَلَى شَىْءٍ, (for the latter of which there is authority in this art. in the TA, but the former is more common,) and] له ↓ استجاب, He obeyed him, or complied with his desire, in doing a thing, [or consented to do it,] when summoned, or invited, to do it. (Msb.) ― -b2- اجابت الأَرْضُ (assumed tropical:) The land produced plants, or herbage. (Ham p. 94.) ― -b3- دَمْعٌ يُجِيبُ (assumed tropical:) Tears running, or flowing; as though called for and answering the call. (Har p. 71.) -A2- The forms أَجْوَبَ and أَجْوِبْ [as verbs of wonder] are not used: therefore you say, مَا أَجْوَدَ جَوَابَهُ and أَجْوِدْ بِجَوَابِهِ [How good is his answer, or reply!]; not مَا أَجْوَبَهُ nor أَجْوِبْ بِهِ: nor do you say, هُوَ أَجْوَبُ مِنْكَ [meaning He is better in answering, or replying, than thou: but see أَجْوَبُ, below]. (Sb, TA.)

i. q. بَعْضُهُمْ بَعْضًا ↓ جَاوَبَ [They returned one another answer for answer, or answers for answers; they answered one another; replied, one to another; held a dialogue, colloquy, conference, disputation, or debate, together; bandied words, one with another]: (K:) ↓ مُجَاوَبَةٌ and تَجَاوُبٌ both signify i. q. تَحَاوُرٌ. (S, TA.) In like manner one says of turtle-doves, (A,) of pigeons, of braying camels, and of neighing horses. (TA.) ― -b2- [Hence,] يَتَجَاوَبُ أَوَّلُ كَلَامِهِ وَآخِرُهُ (tropical:) The first and the last parts of his speech correspond, or are consistent. (A, TA.)

[It (a garment) became rent, or slit: see مُنْجَابٌ]. ― -b2- Said of a cloud, or a collection of clouds, It cleared away [so as to leave an open space]. (S, Msb.) It is said in a trad., وَٱنْجَابَ السَّحَابُ عَنِ المَدِينَةِ حَتَّى صَارَكَالإِ كْلِيلِ And the clouds became gathered and drawn together, and cleared away from the city [so that they became like a crown]. (TA.) ― -b3- [It (a place) was, or became, clear, open, or unobstructed.] See جَوْبَةٌ -A2- انجابت She (a camel) stretched forth her neck, to be milked; (K;) as though she complied with the desire of her milker to be restrained [for that purpose]: but Fr says that he had not found a verb of this measure from أَجَابَ. (TA.)

: see 1, in three places. ― -b2- He dug a well. (K.) And اجتابت, said of a wild cow, She hollowed out, or excavated, a place to shelter herself from the rain. (TA.) ― -b3- He put on, i. e. clad himself with, (T, S, K,) a garment, (T,) or a shirt; (S, K;) he entered into a shirt: and in like manner, (assumed tropical:) the darkness. (TA.)

, inf. n. اِسْتِجَابَةٌ: see 4, nine places.

: see جَأُبٌ, in art. جأب

[an inf. n. (of 1, q. v.,) used in the sense of a pass. part. n. Hence,] a tribe is said to be جَوْبُ أَبٍ as meaning Cut [as it were] from one father; [sprung from the loins of one father;] occurring in a trad. (TA.) ― -b2- A fire-place; [so called because hollowed out;] syn. كَانُونٌ. (K.) ― -b3- A large دَلْو [or bucket; because of its hollow form]. (Kr, K.) ― -b4- A shield; (S, K;) as also ↓ جَوْبَةٌ (TA) and ↓ مِجْوَبٌ: (K:) [see a verse cited voce يَلَبٌ:] pl. of the first أَجْوَابٌ. (TA.) ― -b5- A garment like the بَقِيرَة: [so called because it has a slit in the middle, through which the head is put:] (S:) or a woman's shift. (K.) ― -b6- See also جَوْبَةٌ -A2- [A kind, or sort.] You say, فُلَانٌ فِيهِ جَوْبَانِ مِنْ خُلُقٍ [In such a one are two kinds of temper, or disposition]; i. e., he does not remain in one temper, or disposition. (TA.) And Dhu-Rummeh says, " جَوْبَيْنِ مِنْ هَمَاهِمِ الأَغْوَالِ " meaning Thou hearest two kinds of the sounds, or voices, [or mutterings,] of the ghools. (TA.)

meaning The [part called] طَوْق of a shirt, (see art. جيب,) is, accord. to some, from the root جوب, because the middle of it is cut out: accord. to others, from the root جيب. (TA.)

is an inf. n. of أَجَابَ, (Kr, TA,) or a simple subst. (A Heyth, S, TA) used in the place of an inf. n. (A Heyth, TA. See 4.) Hence, أَسَآءَ سَمْعًا فَأَسَآءَ جَابَةً [He heard ill, and therefore answered ill]: (S, A, K:) a prov., and therefore not to be rehearsed otherwise than in the original way, as above: [not to be altered by the substitution of إِجَابَةٌ or إِجَابًا for جَابَةً:] its origin is said to have been this: Sahl [or Suheyl] Ibn-' Amr had an insane son; and a man said to him, أَيْنَ أَمُّكَ, i. e. “ Whither is thy tending? ” to which he (thinking that he said, أَيْنَ أُمُّكَ [“ Where is thy mother ! ”],) answered, “ She is gone to buy flour: ” whereupon his father uttered the words of this prov. (TA. [See also Freytag's Arab. Prov. i. 603.]) See also جَوَابٌ -A2- جَابَةُ المِدْرَى is a dial. var. of جَأْبَةُ المدرى: (K: [see art. جأب:]) accord. to AO and Sh, it is without ء: accord. to the former, it means A doe-gazelle when her horn has come forth; and accord. to the latter, when her horn has cut the skin and come forth: (T, TA:) or it means having smooth horns; and if so, it has no [known] derivation. (TA.) [See also art. درى.]